Friday, October 19, 2012

Friday Fancies: in light of these times

Happy Friday, dear friends! Golly molly, as much as I appreciate sunshine, I couldn't believe the 90 degree weather we had this week. It has been scorching, and just has not felt like fall has engulfed our parts yet, even at the local pumpkin patch. We've two weeks to get to autumn. We've also two weeks until the general election. I have been striving to get informed on the issues, especially regarding public education via California's Propositions 30 and 38. They propose to, in short, provide funding for our public education system that desperately needs it. If you're interested in learning more, kindly click on the link for the propositions above, which shall take you to a brief summary of informational nuggets I've amassed. I may be biased due to my background in education, but please feel free to ask me for more information or to converse with me about the propositions via commenting. Funding is one of the predicaments drastically preventing our public education system from achieving what it ought, and providing more funding to our schools would indubitably help. However, it is not the fundamental answer. Though our teachers and schools are such an imperative mechanism in influencing the child, there is nothing more influential in the child's life than the family and home. The family and home is the central glue of society primarily responsible for the emotional, mental, and physical well-being and character of the child. There have been too many instances of heart-wrenching brokenness in my students' lives that transfer into the classroom. Unfortunately, the teacher's and school's influence ends when the bell dismisses for the day, or when the phone calls end in the evenings. This honest and insightful article expounds on this social ill beautifully, and reminds me why we must advocate for our kids beyond the classroom as well. And that I must pray for them and our government more fervently. Jeepers, thanks so much for reading my jumbled thoughts of late. Have a grand weekend, lovelies.

7 comments:

Heartily applauding your comments in agreement right now. I feel as though this entire election in general has highlighted this problem. If only we had the ability to create widespread reform in homes! What a joy in knowing that though this is impossible for us to do, we rest in the hands of One with which nothing is impossible.

i am so over this 90 degree heat we have been having this week, i want more fall weather! i hope we get it this weekend. thanks for letting me know about the owner of the koji truck, i heard he was looking at opening up a restaurant.